罗登将在11月大选对阵前民主党州参议员丹·阿尔勒斯
2026年7月28日 美国东部时间晚上9:19 / 福克斯新闻
作者：亚历克·谢梅尔
南达科他州州长拉里·罗登周二击退了商人、比特币倡导者托比·多登的初选挑战，赢得该州历史上首次州长初选决选，晋级11月的大选。
美联社在最终投票站关闭数分钟后就宣布罗登获胜。当时计票进度约为预期投票数的25%，罗登获得70.5%的选票，多登为29.5%。
此次选举是南达科他州选民首次通过初选决选来敲定州长提名。该州法律规定，当州长、美国参议员或众议员候选人在初选中未获得至少35%的选票时，得票前两名的候选人需进行决选。
获特朗普支持的激进派赢得亚利桑那州共和党州长初选，将上演高风险对决
南达科他州州长拉里·罗登（左）与初选挑战者、共和党州长候选人托比·多登（右）
这场一对一对决源于6月的四人选举，当时多登以30.6%的得票率位居第一，罗登以25.2%位列第二，两人均未达到直接获得提名所需的35%得票率。克里斯蒂·诺姆离职加入特朗普政府后，罗登于2025年初接任州长一职，而多登则以商人和政坛新人的身份参选。
多登还以比特币倡导者的身份建立了公众形象。他表示，自己在2020年左右花了约500小时研究加密货币后，“非常、非常大举”投资该币种，最终将公司中无需动用的几乎所有现金储备都转换成了比特币。
“我会永远买入比特币，每天都买，”据《南达科他州探照灯报》报道，多登此前在其播客中说道，“我们挖比特币，我们买比特币。”
多登还支持一项法案，允许管理公职人员养老金和其他州投资的南达科他州投资委员会投资比特币。他更进一步，呼吁南达科他州建立州级比特币储备——这一举措遭到了州投资和预算官员的反对。
特朗普在亚利桑那州初显共和党影响力，民主党避开极左翼逆袭
获胜的罗登将在11月大选中对阵前民主党州参议员丹·阿尔勒斯。自1979年哈维·沃尔曼卸任以来，南达科他州从未有过民主党州长，自1974年理查德·克奈普连任以来，也从未有民主党人当选该州州长。沃尔曼在克奈普辞职后以副州长身份自动接任州长。
在周二的初选决选预热阶段，房产税是竞选的核心议题之一。多登的竞选主张是取消房产税，而罗登的竞选团队则称多登的提案在财政上鲁莽，可能会让地方政府和学校面临严重的资金短缺。
与此同时，罗登的竞选团队突出了州长在3月签署的其他减税措施，罗登的竞选网站将其描述为该州历史上“规模最大”的房产税减免。
南达科他州州长拉里·罗登于2026年7月3日在南达科他州基斯通的拉什莫尔山国家纪念公园集会上发表演讲。
在竞选期间，多登将罗登描绘成南达科他州根深蒂固的政治阶层的一员，并在6月初选后宣称，“职业政客告诉我”，外人无法打破三位长期担任公职者的壁垒。
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罗登反驳了这一攻击，称多登试图拿“职业政客”的标签大做文章，并在接受南达科他州公共广播公司采访时称这一描述“如此扭曲”。罗登辩称，他在州议会的多年经历让他拥有了制定法律并回到家乡遵守这些法律的实际经验。
据福克斯新闻数字频道的调查，唐纳德·特朗普总统并未公开表态支持此次决选的任何一方。特朗普在7月3日拉什莫尔山的讲话中点名感谢了罗登，但并未提及州长竞选。与此同时，多登以“坚定的特朗普支持者”身份参选，表示将助力落实总统的“美国优先议程”。
亚历克·谢梅尔是福克斯新闻数字频道的政治记者，原籍北卡罗来纳州夏洛特，现居住在华盛顿特区-巴尔的摩都会区。
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GOP governor survives challenge from Bitcoin evangelist in gubernatorial runoff
Rhoden advances to face former Democratic state Sen Dan Ahlers in November’s general election
July 28, 2026 9:19pm EDT / Fox News
By Alec Schemmel
South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden fended off a primary challenge from businessman and Bitcoin evangelist Toby Doeden on Tuesday, winning the first gubernatorial primary runoff in state history and advancing to the November general election.
The Associated Press called the race for Rhoden within minutes of final polls closing. He had received 70.5% of the vote compared with Doeden’s 29.5% at the time it was called, with approximately 25% of the expected vote counted.
The election marked the first time South Dakota voters were asked to settle a gubernatorial nomination through a primary runoff. State law requires a runoff between the two leading candidates when no contender for governor, U.S. Senate or U.S. House receives at least 35% of the primary vote.
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South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden (left) and primary challenger Republican candidate for governor Toby Doeden (right)(Toby Doeden for South Dakota/Getty Images)
The head-to-head contest followed a four-way June primary in which Doeden finished first with 30.6% of the vote and Rhoden placed second with 25.2%, leaving both short of the 35% needed to secure the nomination outright. Rhoden became governor in early 2025 after Kristi Noem left to join the Trump administration, while Doeden entered the race as a businessman and political newcomer.
Doeden also built a public profile as a Bitcoin evangelist. He said he began investing “very, very heavily” in the cryptocurrency around 2020 after devoting roughly 500 hours to researching it, eventually converting nearly all the cash reserves from his companies that he did not expect to need into Bitcoin.
“I will buy bitcoin forever, every single day,” Doeden previously said on his podcast, according to the South Dakota Searchlight. “We mine bitcoin, we buy bitcoin.”
Doeden also supported legislation that would have allowed the South Dakota Investment Council, which manages public employee pension funds and other state investments, to invest in Bitcoin. He went further by calling for South Dakota to establish a state Bitcoin reserve – a move state investment and budget officials opposed.
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Tuesday’s winner advances to face former Democratic state Sen. Dan Ahlers in November. South Dakota has not had a Democratic governor since Harvey Wollman left office in 1979, and no Democrat has been elected to the office there since Richard Kneip won re-election in 1974. Wollman became governor automatically as lieutenant governor when Kneip resigned.
In the run-up to Tuesday’s primary runoff, property taxes were among the defining issues of the campaign. Doeden campaigned on eliminating property taxes, while Rhoden’s campaign portrayed Doeden’s proposal as fiscally reckless, arguing it could leave local governments and schools with a major funding shortfall.
Meanwhile, Rhoden’s campaign highlighted other tax relief measures that the governor signed back in March, which Rhoden’s campaign website describes as the “largest” property tax cut in the state’s history.
South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden speaks during a rally at Mount Rushmore National Memorial on July 03, 2026 in Keystone, South Dakota.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
During the race, Doeden portrayed Rhoden as part of South Dakota’s entrenched political class, declaring after the June primary that “the career politicians told me” an outsider could not break through against three longtime officeholders.
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Rhoden pushed back on the attack, saying Doeden was trying to “make hay” out of calling him a career politician and describing that characterization as “such a warped viewpoint,” during an interview with the South Dakota Public Broadcasting network. Rhoden argued that his years in the Legislature gave him practical experience writing laws and then returning home to live under them.
President Donald Trump did not publicly weigh in with an endorsement in the runoff, according to a review by Fox News Digital. Trump thanked Rhoden by name during his July 3 remarks at Mount Rushmore but did not mention the governor’s race. Doeden, meanwhile, campaigned as a “fierce Trump supporter” who said he would help implement the president’s “America First agenda.”
Alec Schemmel is a Politics Reporter for Fox News Digital who is originally from Charlotte, North Carolina but now resides in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore Metro Area.
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